Calfaria Baptist Chapel

The building is a Baptist chapel, constructed of rock-faced grey rubble stone with Bath stone dressings, and has a slate roof with coped gables and kneelers. The Romanesque style chapel was built in 1828 and rebuilt in 1877. The front gable has three large arches, the central one being broader and stilted, resting on four piers with ashlar flush rustication and moulded capitals. The arches are flush ashlar with bicolour voussoirs. A small roundel with pierced quatrefoil sits in the gable. The central arch incorporates a large octofoil ashlar rose window with bicolour voussoirs above double-panelled doors, set within an ashlar porch with heavy columns, a trilobe arch, and a coped gable. Inscribed on the gable are the words 'Built 1828 Calfaria Rebuilt 1877'. The side walls are two-storey, with a four-window arrangement, featuring cambered-headed windows below and arched windows above, linked by an impost band. The windows have ashlar flush surrounds with bicolour voussoirs. The glazing is 20th century plastic, designed to replicate the intricate original pattern with lozenges and horizontal bars. Flush angle quoins and an ashlar eaves course are present.

Inside, the ceiling has arch-braced collar trusses supported by corbels, a brattished wall-plate, and plaster panels to the sloping sides and across at collar level. Pierced timber lozenge ventilators are located in the centre. A three-sided gallery is supported by iron columns with furled leaf capitals. The gallery front is bracketed, with a panelled underside, a moulded cornice below, and vertical boarding under long cast-iron panels in a pattern of crosses within quatrefoils. The gallery angles are curved and raked, with curved pews. Coloured glass is incorporated into the rose window. The main pews are made of pitch-pine, arranged in three blocks, with boarded backs and shaped bench ends. A dado rail runs around the walls, featuring pierced quatrefoils. A plain three-sided set fawr is also present. The pulpit platform has steps on each side, with two bays of open arches and scrolled iron inserts. The pulpit front projects with two plain arched panels. A Gothic newel and corner post features chamfering and pyramid caps. Behind the pulpit is a large plaster arched feature; a main arch flanked by narrower side arches, with carved capitals on column shafts and thick half-round profiles to the arches, all set within an outer arch. A roundel sits between the heads of the inner and outer arches, and an arched hoodmould rests on corbels. A marble memorial is dedicated to the Rev D S Davies, who died in 1917. The entrance lobby has a three-light leaded and coloured glass window, along with canted sides, each with a double door.